Poor old World Rugby, the non-governing governing body, has taken a fair old hammering in recent days and weeks. The problem this time? The same problem it had three years ago, at which point it was steadfast in its refusal to acknowledge that it had a problem at all.
As we know to our cost, the pool draw for the 2023 World Cup was made in 2020. It did not take a rugby genius of Antoine Dupont magnitude to work out that this was just a little previous, but as there is precious little genius of any description doing the rounds at the NGGB, the penny was never going to drop immediately with t...